Leptospira and Bats: Story of an Emerging Friendship

Muriel Dietrich; Kristin Mühldorfer; Pablo Tortosa; Wanda Markotter

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005176

Leptospira and Bats: Story of an Emerging Friendship

PLoS Pathog. 2015 Nov 12;11(11):e1005176. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005176. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Muriel Dietrich¹, Kristin Mühldorfer², Pablo Tortosa³, Wanda Markotter¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
² Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany.
³ UMR PIMIT, Université de la Réunion, CNRS 9192, INSERM 1187, IRD 249, Reunion Island, Sainte Clotilde, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Chiroptera / immunology
Chiroptera / microbiology*
Disease Reservoirs / microbiology*
Humans
Leptospira / isolation & purification
Leptospira / pathogenicity*
Leptospirosis / microbiology*
Risk

Grants and funding

This work was made possible by funding from the National Research Foundation, South Africa (NRF – N00595) to MD. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.